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Those Winter Sundays
Robert Hayden
(1913-1980)
“Those Winter Sundays” from Angle of Ascent: New and Collected
Poems. Copyright © 1966 by Robert Hayden. Reprinted with the
permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
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Sundays too my father got up early
I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. Speaking indifferently to him,
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
who had driven out the cold
then with cracked hands that ached
and slowly I would rise and dress,
and polished my good shoes as well.
from labor in the weekday weather made
fearing the chronic angers of that house,
What did I know, what did I know
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O Tell Me the Truth
About Love
W. H. Auden
(1907-1973)
from “O Tell Me the Truth About Love,”
copyright © 1940 & renewed 1968 by W.H. Auden,
from Collected Poems by W.H. Auden. Used by
permission of Random House, Inc.
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When it comes, will it come without warning
Just as I'm picking my nose?
Will it knock on my door in the morning
Or tread in the bus on my toes?
Will it come like a change in the weather?
Will its greeting be courteous or rough?
Will it alter my life altogether?
O tell me the truth about love.
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Wilderness
Lorine Niedecker
(1903-1970)
“Wilderness” by Lorine Niedecker from Lorine
Niedecker: Collected Works, edited by Jenny
Pennberthy, published by the University of
California Press. Copyright © 2002 by The Regents
of the University of California. Reprinted with the
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You are the man
You are my other country
and I find it hard going
the torrent to raise the river
to float the wounded doe
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You are the prickly pear
You are the sudden violent storm
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Alicia Partnoy
(b. 1955)
From Revenge of the Apple/Venganza de la manzana.
Copyright © 1992 Alicia Partnoy.
Published by Cleis Press. Translated by Richard Schaaf, Regina
Kreger, and the author. Reprinted with the permission of the author.
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I am talking to you about poetry
and you say
when do we eat.
The worst of it is
I’m hungry too.
Yo te hablo de poesia
y vos me preguntás
a qué hora comemos.
Lo peor es que
yo también tengo hambre.
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“If there is something to desire”
Vera Pavlova
(b.1963)
Translated from the Russian by Steven Seymour
“If there is something to desire,”
by Vera Pavlova, translated by Steven Seymour.
Copyright © 2007 by Vera Pavlova and Steven
Seymour. Reprinted by permission of the
author and the translator.
If there is something to
there will be something
If there is something to
there will be something
desire,
to regret.
regret,
to recall.
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A Little Tooth
Thomas Lux
(b. 1946)
“A Little Tooth” from Drowned River by Thomas Lux.
Copyright ©1990 by Thomas Lux. Used by permission
of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Your baby grows a tooth, then two,
and four, and five, then she wants some meat
directly from the bone. It’s all
over: she’ll learn some words, she’ll fall
in love with cretins, dolts, a sweet
talker on his way to jail. And you,
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nothing. You did, you loved, your feet
are sore. It’s dusk. Your daughter’s tall.
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To You
Walt W h i t m a n
(1819-1892)
from “Inscriptions” from Leaves of Grass, 1891 ed.
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